Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Ubuntu Kernel Team - Weekly Newsletter, 2017-11-07

October 24 through November 06-----------------------

##Development (18.04)##Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to beused in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because wedon't definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel overthe next 6 months nor the quality of that kernel. We look at the Ubunturelease schedule and how that will line up with the upstream kernelreleases. We talk to hardware vendors about when they will be landingtheir changes upstream and what they would prefer as the Ubuntu kernelversion. We talk to major cloud vendors and ask them what they wouldlike. We speak to large consumers of Ubuntu to solicit their opinion. We look at what will be the next upstream stable kernel. We get inputfrom members of the Canonical product strategy team. Taking all of thatinto account we are tentatively planning to converge on 4.15 for theBionic Beaver 18.04 LTS release.

On the road to 18.04 we have a 4.14 based kernel in the kernel team'sunstable ppa.

##Stable (Released & Supported)##

* SRU cycle completed successfully and the following kernel updateshave been released to the -updates pocket: